Vocabulary
This is another term for farming
What is Agriculture
This is the name given to the act of hunting and gathering resources.
What is the Foraging?
This is the term given to a group of people who do not move around?
What is the Sedentary?
This is the biggest benefit that people received from agriculture?
What is more FOOD!!!
This at first rose with the invention of farming, but eventually 30-60% of these communities failed or died due to their reliance on farming instead of hunting and gathering. This ultimately led to overall declines of this in some areas instead.
Human population
Definition: The act of raising/taming animals/plants to provide resources for humans
What is Domestication?
This is the name given to these types of people who do not have a permanent location to settle, and instead move across a large territory at different times of the year.
What is the Nomadic?
Due to the new closer proximity, or short distances, between humans in villages, it was more easily able to spread and wipe out new farming communities?
What is disease?
This U.S. state where you can go searching for and find diamonds for yourself. It also contains the name of another U.S. state in the name.
This term is used to describe the time period when Agriculture was invented
Bonus--tell me what both Neolithic and Paleolithic literally translates.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
Bonus:What is the New Stone Period/Time (Age)?
What is the Old Stone Period/Time (Age)?
This is the process for early hunter/gatherers to learn what food was edible and not?
What is Trial and Error?
These types of structures show that a group of people are living in one area, and are not moving around.
What are permanent structures?
As less people had to be allocated to the production of food, we saw the rise in _________ which allowed people to become experts at doing certain skills.
What is Job Specialization?
With its large size and body, this creature is known as the only species in the world to actively stalk and hunt humans. Some towns have laws making it mandatory to keep their cars and doors unlocked in case someone needs to escape from this creature.
What are polar bears?
This term is describing the process of the land changing due to the overgrazing of the land, erosion, flooding, and loss of good top soil in an area.
What is the Desertification?
This type of material was most commonly used by the hunter gatherers for tools?
What are two examples?
What is the Stone?
Hammer, hand axe, spear, arrow, mortar, bowl, knife. (others may be accepted upon teacher's decision)
Another names for crop failure due to dry climate periods are these terms ______ and ______.
You must give both to get credit
What is drought and famine?
The end of hunting/gathering brought about the formation of towns, and a direct consequence of this was the formation of cities. This led to the creation of ______.
What is civilization?
This device is used to measure the air's force on the surrounding environment. This is seen in meteorology as high and low systems.
What is a barometer?
Pronounce this term correctly: Tsetse Fly
What is the Zeet-Zee Fly?
What is the name of this type of Nomadic housing like a large tent (not a teepee), most popularly used today by the nomadic herders in Mongolia
Yurt
List at least five locations where the Neolithic Revolution took place independently of each other?
You must list all 5
What is North Africa, Mexico, Paupa New Guinea, Central U.S., Mexico, Middle East, and China
Before the rise of kings and kingdoms, the leadership position was usually this title.
What is a Tribal Chief or Village Elder?
This term is used when someone says something that means something literally, but could also be used to mean something else metaphorically as well. It also doesn't sound like it's spelled.
What is a double entendre?